Manager - Contract Manufacturing

Work Shift: Day Pay Type: Salary Hourly Rate (if applicable): N/A Targeted Base Salary Range (if applicable): $114,300.00 - $148,300.00 JOB OVERVIEW: The Manager, Contract Manufacturing manages an assigned portfolio of external manufacturing partners and is accountable for delivering safety, food safety, quality, service, cost, capacity, and commercialization objectives. The role translates the contract manufacturing strategy into practical operating plans, partner priorities, and measurable results. The position coordinates partner performance, qualification and onboarding, commercialization, manufacturing transfers, continuity planning, and continuous improvement within the assigned portfolio. Working with Supply Chain, FSQA, R&D, Engineering, Procurement, Finance, Commercial teams, and external manufacturers, the Manager resolves execution issues, recommends actions, and maintains alignment with established business priorities. RESPONSIBILITIES: ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS Execute contract manufacturing plans for an assigned portfolio, aligning partner capacity, capabilities, risks, and priorities with established business and supply chain strategies. Coordinate evaluation, due diligence, qualification, onboarding, and stabilization activities for new contract manufacturing partners and production lines. Manage day-to-day relationships with assigned contract manufacturers; maintain operating cadences, escalation paths, business reviews, and accountability for agreed commitments. Maintain partner scorecards, KPIs, and corrective action tracking for safety, food safety, quality, delivery, service, cost, compliance, yield, waste, throughput, and capacity. Facilitate partner performance reviews, document gaps and root causes, coordinate action owners, and follow through until recovery and preventive actions are sustained. Support Procurement and Legal with sourcing events, commercial evaluations, contract negotiations, service levels, capacity commitments, change control, confidentiality, and contract compliance. Analyze tolling, turnkey, cost-plus, fixed-price, and full-service arrangements and provide should-cost and total-cost-of-ownership recommendations. Manage commercialization and manufacturing transfer projects for the assigned portfolio, including project plans, trials, qualification, validation, first production, launch readiness, and post-launch stabilization. Coordinate with Planning, Procurement, Inventory Control, Transportation, Warehousing, and partner sites to support production schedules, material availability, packaging, finished-goods inventory, logistics, and customer service. Provide external manufacturing capacity, constraint, forecast, and risk inputs to S&OP and business continuity processes; maintain alternate-source and recovery actions for assigned products. Manage assigned conversion costs, forecasts, cost variances, productivity initiatives, inventory exposure, write-offs, and Finance-validated savings in partnership with Finance. Coordinate resolution of supply, service, quality, cost, equipment, labor, material, specification, transportation, and scheduling issues; escalate critical risks with fact-based recovery recommendations. Partner with FSQA, Regulatory, and EHS teams on specifications, investigations, corrective actions, audit remediation, regulatory compliance, recall readiness, and applicable safety and environmental requirements. Implement continuous improvement initiatives with external partners using Lean, Six Sigma, capability analysis, structured problem solving, data-based decisions, and relevant manufacturing technologies. Maintain accurate portfolio records and reporting, including contracts, contacts, SKUs, pricing, inventory, components, master data, project status, risks, decisions, and partner performance. Prepare concise updates on partner performance, risks, tradeoffs, and recommended actions for leadership review and cross-functional decision-making. Supervise assigned contrac…

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